PhD Candidate, Pontifical Catholic University of Chile
Contributor, Platypus, The CASTAC Blog
Research Interests
Anthropology of Infrastructure | Digital Anthropology | Telecommunication Governance |
About Natalia
Anthropology PhD Candidate at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (Santiago de Chile) and founding member of the Latin American Network of Digital Anthropology, where I advocate for critical research with/about digital technologies from the discipline to the dynamic regional context. Additionally, I coordinate the Mentorships Program for the STS-Chile Network hoping to improve the integration mechanisms to new generations in the field, and I work as an editorial assistant in the journal Big Data&Society. My main research interests are infrastructure studies, telecommunication governance, the anthropology of cellphones and the history of mobile technologies. My dissertation is about the 5G rollout in Chile from a sociocultural perspective that highlights the multiple meanings of the system, in addition to how it is created, used, and resisted in everyday life.